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Who We Are

Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

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How we work

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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Reports and financials

Read through our annual financial and activity reports, and find out about where our funds come from and how they are spent.

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What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

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Where we work

In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

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Our offices around the world
Our offices around the world
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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

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CRASH

Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field.

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UREPH

Based in Geneva, UREPH (or Research Unit) aims to improve the way MSF projects are implemented in the field and to participate in critical thinking on humanitarian and medical action.

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ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based in Brussels, MSF Analysis intends to stimulate reflection and debate on humanitarian topics organised around the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates.

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MSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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MSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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Amsterdam Procurement Unit

This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.

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Brazilian Medical Unit

BRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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MSF Medical Guidelines

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experiences, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals.

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Epicentre

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

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Evaluation Units

Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

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LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Health Settings

MSF works with LGBTQI+ populations in many settings over the last 25-30 years. LGBTQI+ people face healthcare disparities with limited access to care and higher disease rates than the general population.

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LUXOR

The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.

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MSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare.

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Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

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MSF Paediatric Days

The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF and the humanitarian sector as a whole.

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DNDi

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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Israeli forces injure hundreds of Palestinian men, women, and children in Jerusalem
Palestine

MSF urges Israel to stop attacks on Gaza as trauma clinic is damaged in shelling

MSF has urged Israel to stop the attacks on Gaza and immediately allow for safe access of humanitarian staff supplies as our trauma and burns clinic was damaged in shelling. Project Update - 17 May 2021
 
Malnutrition emergency: mobile clinic in Ranobe
Madagascar

Massive increase in food needed as famine looms in southern Madagascar

A once in a 30-year drought is among the factors that have led to a severe food shortage in southern Madagascar, leaving people in the region almost starving in places. Press Release - 17 May 2021
 
Sea Watch 4 - Rotation01 - Life On Deck
Activity Report

Year in Review 2020

Read the Operations Directors' review of MSF activities in 2020. Project Update - 17 May 2021
 
Cabo Delgado: Mapupulo IDP site
Mozambique

Focus on fighting ‘terrorists’ ignores real humanitarian needs in Cabo Delgado

People in Cabo Delgado in Mozambique are living under brutal violence. While the needs are huge, ongoing insecurity and bureaucracy continue to hinder the ability to scale up humanitarian aid. Opinion - 14 May 2021
 
Bombed building in Gaza
Palestine

Heavy Israeli bombing pushes Gaza to the edge of catastrophe

Heavy Israeli bombing in the latest escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine has left dozens killed or injured; the level of violence from the Israeli police and army is unacceptable. Press Release - 13 May 2021
 
MSF search and rescue ship Geo Barents
Mediterranean migration

MSF returns to saving lives at sea in central Mediterranean

With people continuing to drown while attempting to flee Libya, MSF returns to search and rescue activities in the central Mediterranean Sea, with a new ship, the Geo Barents. Press Release - 13 May 2021
 
Revolting attack on pregnant women and babies
Afghanistan

Analysing the unthinkable – one year after the Dasht-e-Barchi attack

MSF Director of operations, Dr Isabelle Defourny, outlines what's happened in the year since our maternity ward in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, was attacked, leaving 16 people dead. Interview - 10 May 2021
 
MSF mobile medical team in Batken region, Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan border clashes leave thousands in shock and homeless

MSF teams are providing counselling to people in Kyrgyzstan, following tensions which have flared on the Kyrgyz/Tajik border, which has left some people displaced after their houses were damaged. Project Update - 10 May 2021
 
Treating the COVID-19 Second wave
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

More oxygen supplies needed to avoid COVID-19 patients “gasping for air”

People in low- and middle-income countries are last in line for both COVID-19 vaccines and stable supplies of oxygen to treat severe patients - the lack of which are leaving people to get sick and die. Press Release - 10 May 2021
 
Building trust with the communities
DRC Ebola outbreaks

DRC's twelfth Ebola outbreak

On 3 May 2021, DRC declared over an outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu province, which had been the country’s twelfth in just over 40 years, and the fourth in the last two years. Crisis Update - 7 May 2021
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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